Potential Placements
The opportunities listed below will give you a sense of the different types of placement and different organisations you can do a placement with. They are current vacancies and can be applied to but the list is not exhaustive. You are welcome and encouraged to explore opportunities at other organisations that may be more relevant to your research.
Please contact us if you are interested in any of the opportunities below or have a different organisation in mind for your placement.
Contact us: training@chase.ac.uk
These placements are available to CHASE funded students (in receipt of a CHASE studentship) only.
You must still be receiving your stipend when the placement starts and the placement must have finished before your PhD thesis is submitted for examination.
You will be paid by extension of your stipend. Your funding end date will be extended by the number of months the placement runs for (adjusted for part time hours if necessary).
You can claim support with additional costs, such as travel and accommodation costs.
Please read the guidance notes contained in the CHASE placement application form before applying for any placements offered through this scheme.
Current placement opportunities
Deadline: 21 March 2025
An opportunity is available for a CHASE-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long editorial placement. The internship will provide invaluable experience within an internationally recognised academic and literary journal in preparation for a career within academia, publishing, or the arts sector.
Deadline: 18th April 2025
The Landecker Digital Memory Lab is dedicated to ensuring the sustainability of Holocaust memory in the digital age. This placement offers the opportunity to work in a busy team environment at the forefront of world-leading arts and humanities research, working with a broad range of international stakeholders. The successful candidate will develop a broad range of skills related to research methodologies, ethics and data management providing an excellent grounding for a future career in academia.
The 4 Day Week Foundation are the UK's national campaigning organisation for a four-day week. This is an exciting role with one of the UK’s most prominent campaigns at an important time for the four-day week movement.
Message Heard: Podcasts with Purpose - Marketing Support Placement
Be hands-on in an established yet growing production company, conceptualising and executing integrated marketing strategies that have a direct effect on the success of the company. Whilst having access and working with some of the biggest national and international brands and projects.
Deadline: 21st February 2025.
PhD students are invited to apply to the British Library PhD Placement Scheme. Placement projects are offered from a variety of areas across the Library for 3 months or part-time equivalent.
The National Trust have recently acquired a rare 400 year old prayer book owned by the Benedictine priest who helped hide and save the life of the future King Charles II as he fled Parliamentarian troops in 1651, and who many years later received the dying king into the Catholic Church. help us better understand the role of this kind of book, the way it might have been used, its prevalence in 17th century England and so on. The book is now at Moseley Old Hall in Staffordshire.
Deadline: 1st April 2025
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a multi-award winning open access publisher seeking a CHASE student placement to assist with Editorial, Marketing and Technical duties as part of our small, hardworking team. The position is fully set up for remote working, so there is no travel requirement involved, and applications for full or part time placements will be considered.
Deadline: 7th March 2025
Southend Museums are undertaking an exciting and large-scale collections move that will allow us to bring our significant collection from disparate sites to one central Collections Centre which will in turn increase accessibility to the collection for staff, the public and researchers. Whilst the primary focus of this role will be to assist with the collections move project, there will be additional opportunities to assist with projects ranging from public engagement and digital engagement through to social media and communications.
The Hockey Museum (THM) is the world’s first and only museum of field hockey. Located in Woking, Surrey, it is only a 30-minute train from Waterloo station. THM preserves, shares and celebrates the sport’s rich history and heritage both in Britain – where the ‘modern’ game started – and worldwide.
CHASE is looking to appoint a part-time Researcher Networks Officer to oversee the administration of the student and faculty-led CHASE researcher networks.
Drawing Room offers placements of a minimum of two days per week over a minimum of 3 months, providing an opportunity to work with the Co-directors researching the future programme, with the Study Librarian on the unique collection, with the exhibitions team on handling artworks and loan agreements, with the Engagement Team on our work with local communities, and with front of house, receiving visitors.
The Brilliant Club is an award-winning university access charity. They recruit and train PhD students and ECRs to support disadvantaged school pupils access the most competitive universities and succeed when they get there.
The role will provide administrative and editorial support to our department. This role is based at Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP. The placement will ideally be for 2-3 days a week over a period of 6 months, but there is some flexibility with this.
JGPACA is a volunteer-run archive of historical materials relating to African and African diasporic cinemas, with Black British cinema at its core. The placement holder will assist June Givanni and her team of volunteers in maintaining and developing the archive. Tasks include collections cataloguing and digitisation; conception and delivery of film screenings and other public events; fundraising and publicity; editorial and administrative support.
Turner Contemporary is one of the UK’s leading art galleries, showcasing world-class exhibitions. Since opening in Margate in 2011, Turner Contemporary has established itself as a locally embedded, nationally significant arts organisation connecting art, people and place.
CHASE is partnering with the think tank the Autonomy Institute to offer exciting opportunities for doctoral researchers to engage in the world of innovative and radical policy.